There was an old woman in China who had supported a monk for over twenty years. She had built a little hut for him and fed him while he was meditating. Finally she wondered just what progress he had made in all this time.
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The majority of the following books are from the library of Chon Tri. Many of the summaries and in his own words. If you wish to purchase the book, click on the cover image and you will be linked to Amazon.com.

SummaryBook Description The emergence of the Madhyamaka philosophy was a radical turning point in the evolution of Buddhist thought in terms of which untenability of realism of early Buddhism is established. While delineating the various aspects of Madhyamaka thought in relation to Abhidharmic realism and Brahmanical idealism, Prof. Murti at the same time has analysed the close resemblance that occurs between the philosophy of Kant and Hegel, on the one hand, and Nagarjuna, on the other. Thus the book is a veritable treasure of information covering the evolution of human thought in the East and West.

SummaryBook Description The author was struck by the profound similarities between the teachings of Don Juan and Nagarjuna - in particular concerning Samvrti and Paramartha of Madhyamaka and the Tonal and Nagual of Don Juan and the concept of categorical frameworks.

SummaryLama Surya Das, author of the bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within, is the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition. In this elegant, inspiring book, he integrates essential Buddhist practices with a variety of other spiritual philosophies and wisdom traditions, to show you how to create a personalized spiritual practice based on your own individual beliefs, aspirations, and needs. Through reflections on his own life quest, thoughtful essays, and entertaining stories, Surya Das examines the common themes at the heart of any spiritual path, including faith, doubt, love, compassion, creativity, self-inquiry, and transformation. He then explores prayer, yoga, chanting, guided meditations, breathing exercises, and myriad other rituals, providing practical examples of each that we can use day-to-day to nurture our inner spirit.

SummaryA study of the concept of Buddha nature as discussed in the Buddha Nature Treatise attributed to Vasubandhu and translated into Chinese by Paramartha in the sixth century. Sallie B.King places the Buddha nature concept in the context of Buddhist intellectual history, explains the language in the text. In addition, Sallie B. King refutes the accusations that the idea of Buddha nature introduces a crypto-Atman into Buddhist thought, and that it represents a form of monism akin to Brahmanism of the Upanishads. In doing this, King defends Buddha nature in terms of purely Buddhist philosophical principles. Finally, the author engages the Buddha nature concept in dialogue with Western philosophy by asking what it teaches us about what a human being, or person, is. (From the backcover of the book.)

SummaryEditorial Reviews 1930. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766176851. Volume 1 of 2. This work claims the consideration of the historian of the culture of Asia, of the Sanskrit philologist and of the general philosopher. It is the last of a series of three works destined to elucidate what is perhaps the most powerful movement of ideas in the history of Asia, a movement which, originating in the 6th century BC in the valley of Hindustan, gradually extended its sway over almost the whole of the continent of Asia, as well as over the islands of Japan and of the Indian archipelago. These works are thus concerned about the history of the ruling ideas of Asia, Central and Eastern.

SummaryExcellent means to exit from logic, February 14, 1998 Reviewer: A reader This Buddhist logic of epistemological-logic has a built-in self-destructive logic in it. When you discover that the ordinary redkneck shares the same fate with the philosopher as far as his innate natural-logic goes, it simply takes you to the last frontier of buddhist logic where you discover the fact that all human beings of all races are naturally ignorant! Unconsciously, Dharmakirti has literally outwitted the very purpose of epistemological sciences by illustrating that there is no logic beyond the logic of whatever experience you are going through! this is the kind of book who knows its disciple! It is not meant for every thinker!

SummaryClear and Calm is a unique exposition of the Nyingma method od meditation. Translated from the original Tibetan, it comprises two practice-oriented meditation texts by Lama Mipham (1846-1914), one of the most brilliant teachers in Tibet's history. (From the back cover of the book).

SummaryBook Description The present book provides an English translation of Nagarjuna's chapters on Causality and Nirvana and Candrakirti's comprehensive commentary on the Sanskrit Text and presents a rare exposition of the Madhyamaka Dialectic.

SummaryBook Description This book is based primarily on the source material available in the Pali Canon, studied historically and philosophically in the light of the contemporary, earlier and later literary evidence related to the subject. The antiquity and authenticity of the material is vouchsafed by the literary, linguistic, ideological, sociological, and historical evidence existing into Pali Canon itself. The book traces the origin of the theory of knowledge and its development in early Buddhism - the Hinayana Buddhism of Pali Canon.

SummaryThe book gives a descriptive analysis of specific Madhyamika texts. It compares the ideology of Kumarajiva ( a great translator of the four Madhyamika treatises in the fourth century A.D.) with the ideologies of the three Chinese contemporaries - Hui-yuan, Jeng-jui and Seng-chao. It envisagees an inter-cultural transmission of religious and philosophical ideas from India to China. In eight chapters along with ten documents it details the philosophy, ideology, comparision, "the Lineage of the old Treatise sect" and "the Chief Idea of the Mahayana". (From the back cover of the book).